Gold, Silver, & Relics

umrgolf · Apr 13, 2010

Gold, Silver, & Relics

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Hey T-net.. Sentinel and myself spent Saturday and Monday digging a new site in town.. We were told by a local that "the house across the street" was a civil war hospital

8) Music to our ears :laughing7:

These two days will be remembered for years to come and you can't meet a better guy than Josh.. Good times :headbang:

Let's get to the pictures :thumbsup:

-2 heavily gilted Eagle "A" coat buttons
-Virginia cuff button
-New Hampshire Disabled Veteran Service coat button
-New York coat button
-2 General Service Eagle coat buttons
-3 Indian Wars Eagle buttons
-Great Seal button

Bullets and US rosette

Old English Script seal and solid gold cufflink

George V copper, 1868 shield nickel, 3 silver dimes, 1925 SLQ, 3 buffalo nickels, silver war nickel

United States Census badge (1910) and Washington and Lee tag

A few of the brass items

Iron Curry comb for the horses

Group Photo

One last shot of the cufflink

HH Jeff

curbdiggercarl57 · Apr 15, 2010

Re: Gold, Silver, & Relics

N.J.THer said:
Congrats on some great finds.

Washington and Lee is a University. I found a very similar watch fob that read Roosevelt 1904 Fairbanks Washington. This was from the 1904 presidential election. A fellow t-netter gave me a matching watch fob that read Parker 1904 Davis Washington which was from the losing candidates. So I was thinking something to do with an election. The only thing I could find was that pertained to Washington and Lee in 1907 was a visit by William Jennings Bryan. This is also the year the school started doing mock political conventions to pick the presidential candidates. They have picked them correctly 18 out of 23 times....not too bad.

Just some food for thought....most likely just a watch fob from the school for students to buy.
NJ

I dug one of those Parker 1904 political fobs, and it is almost identical in design to yours. Definitely political, or as NJ stated, a mock fob. Which might actually be better, collecting-wise. Again, you had a great couple days of hunting.
Carl